Rugby World Cup: Mako Vunipola set to miss England’s final warm-up

Rugby World Cup: Mako Vunipola set to miss England’s final warm-up

Mako Vunipola is set to miss England’s final Rugby World Cup warm-up game against Italy with a hamstring injury.

The prop suffered a small tissue tear against Ireland, shortly after making his long-awaited comeback from another hamstring problem.

He is only expected to be out for around 10 days which shouldn’t affect his involvement in the World Cup.

Exeter’s Ben Moon has been called up as cover ahead of the match at St James’ Park, Newcastle on Friday 6 September.

Moon is part of the squad flying to Treviso on Wednesday for another warm-weather training camp, with Charlie Ewels, Matt Kvesic and Joe Marchant – who are not part of the World Cup squad – also involved.